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Interview with Claire Welsh - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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ER Do you see any gender differences [or age or]

CW [not that I've]

CW ((pause)) Well the young kids will just, will just get stuck in and get on with things, and there is a certain nervousness that comes in at about 8 or 9 I suppose - where people are more, you know if there's no one watching them then they'll get on with it and. It's interesting, I mean in the, in the exhibition area you get a lot of people who initially will wander round, and not actually get, I mean I don't, I don't particularly like, if I visit a science centre and it's very, you know, sometimes if I'm travelling or something and I've gone in on my own, I always think, I mean I think well I should just get on with it, you know, I work in a place like this, but I still feel a bit self-conscious myself, you know. I know lots of people won't come here unless they've got loads of kids in tow and that sort of thing, which is, a, shame.